The Body Keeps Score
Originally popularised by Bessel van der Kolk’s bestselling book, this phrase describes how trauma becomes embedded in the nervous system and physiology. While van der Kolk drew attention to somatic trauma, the concept has deeper roots in feminist, disability justice, and racialised trauma frameworks. It has since been reclaimed and expanded by thinkers like Judith Herman, Resmaa Menakem, and Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha. This tag includes critiques, reinterpretations, and community-based approaches to understanding how the body holds memory and meaning.
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The unseen wounds of advocacy: caregiver burnout, moral injury, and embodied grief
Caregiver burnout in BC schools reflects moral injury and systemic betrayal, as mothers fight exclusion and harm while advocating for disabled children.
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Collective punishment in schools: How humiliation undermines emotional safety and learning
In classrooms around the world, students are sometimes punished for the misbehavior of others. One student breaks a rule, and the entire class loses a privilege. This practice – known as collective punishment – persists even though it is broadly recognised as unjust. In fact, collective punishment is explicitly banned under Article 33 of the Geneva Conventions…
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How narcissism and PDA collide in the wreckage of trust
Some children refuse control because control has always felt like violence. Because control has worn the face of love and left behind a residue of shame. Because adults said, “this is for your own good” while ignoring tears, violating autonomy, and insisting that compliance was safety. For these children, especially those with a PDA profile,…
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He doesn’t go from zero to sixty
“He’s not a car,” I said, exasperated, after someone described Robin as going from zero to sixty. The withering look I received in return was pure disgust—as though I had interrupted a sacred adult ritual, as though I may as well have had a huge boil in the middle of my forehead, oozing pus. But…
